Erykah Badu ‎– Baduizm

Quite possibly the best sounding cassette that I own. So much more dynamic than the CD, and not cut in half and spliced like the OG vinyl. Very nice!

Sounds great but bought two copies both with pops. Gonna try for a third. Good thing my store takes returns on defects.

This is not a boot, but the reissue IS the first time the album was released on vinyl in its entirety. This version is edited down to a single LP

I've had two of of these pressings. It might be a bootleg because of the new repress saying "the first time it's been officially on vinyl." I think.

Here's one that flies under the radar, the last track - A Child With The Blues - featuring Terence Blanchard and produced by none other than Curtis Mayfield!!

Wow! I remember the day when this record hit the streets. What an eye opening experience. I was collecting mostly vintage Jazz, Funk and Soul Records. It took me less then two seconds to realize that this one would became an instant classic. I even played it @45 and mixed it with some Motorbass or Daft Punk stuff late 90s. Dangit I need to find that Mixtape. Absolutely one of the best so called Neo Soul Records. But for me it is still what it is: one of the freshest Soul Records of all time. No matter which century you are currently in.

On Baduism Eryka Badu is Billie Holiday, Gill Scott Heron and Stevie Wonder rolled into one. Badu's conscientious lyrics and Holidayesque vocals over the funky bass of Ron Carter backed by subtle keyboards and horns, add up to what was a seminal album. "Drama" is my highlight, I nearly wore this out - All hail the Queen of Neo Soul. Yes there had been music with a similar feel: D'Angelo's "Brown Sugar" and Maxwell's "Urban Hang Suite" in the preceding years, and before that Guru had used Donald Byrd among others on Jazzmatazz, and A Tribe Called Quest had a jazz thing going on before that, using Ron Carter themselves. You could even say Sade was Neo Soul - this just has a Bohemian edge that makes it different and original. One of the greatest début albums of all time.